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Any time we store anything in our UAZ the entire inventory is wiped on restart. Ural was okay, we've only lost a few items from that but the majority seem to stick. Our motorbikes inventory seemed to save fine aswell. I dont recommend storing anything in UAZs for now at least. Those are the only ones I can speak for personally, but from the looks of the thread it seems any of the vehicles with space equal to 50/10/2 may suffer from this wipe issue (see http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=10198 ). I can also add that of the 50/10/2 vehicles I've found in the woods, all of them have been empty (A toyota, some old hatchbacks).

Hey geniuses telling the OP to cry more, there are scripts that can allow a hacker to locate all the vehicles on a server and then of course either port to them, or blow them up or do whatever else they want. I swear to god most of you should have to take an exam before being allowed to his the reply button.

Considering any vehicles / tents being laid outside the map boundry are now being deleted -- I would say it's pretty vital to rethink the whole tent storage thing. It's a temporary risky storage for "extra stuff", but you'd be a moron to "hide" your things in plain view with so many people online... People could still hunt down subtle soil mounds next to bushes etc but it would not be as stupidly obvious as a tent you can see miles off.

Can you see other vehicles on the map? I think a vehicle becomes visible on the map once it has been "spotted".

AntiVi, more vehicles doesn't necessarily make everyone getting vehicles a breeze.... The amount of coordination, time and effort getting together all the gear and repairing the vehicle is the truly challenging part, not finding a vehicle, especially since the vehicle locations are already known on map databases. It's pretty unrealistic that in an area populated by thousands of people there'd only be 20 repairable vehicles. I highly doubt zombies go around smashing vehicles to bits aimlessly.

Seriously, you are kidding me... The only f** Third Party Programm im using is Six Launcher. And all of that cause i was pissed off in that thread because our tents and vehicles was gone? That cant be true. -.-

This is the fucking 3rd time in a row we lose our cars in the time of a few days even though we hide it far in the forest. If you sleep next to a fucking car you will fucking hear it go. Add a key system, a chance to lock the cars, chance to add bulletproof glass to make it more safe, ANYTHING to help against getting the vehicles stolen every fucking time. The only way to safely hide vehicles is to drive them out of the map but we're not douchebags so we don't do it. Fucking do something, Rocket. It's unrealistic. Excuse my language but I am pissed right now as we lost a land rover and an ATV full of weapons and loot and left with nothing.

Yeah, that's what i was thinking about yesterday! A convoi, that moves across the map in a random pattern, and at night, they could build up a camp. Hard to take over, but if you manage to put the soldiers out, you will get nice loot and one of their vehicles (if not destroyed during the firefight). +1 for that!

Let me just say this: The amount of vehicles has a set amount on a map so they are limited. The amount of people on a server is like 60. If it has for example 20 vehicles then its still an achievement to get a vehicle. But if there are 40 vehicles then everybody can be driving or be a passenger in one and it would be no achievement at all and that would also give bandits no reason to attack people with a vehicle since they can get it so easy. I don't agree with this idea. The only thing that is possible is that the respawn time (currently 7 days) gets reduced. AntiVi

Lots of food, water and head to north of map. then sweep east and west looking for others' loot and vehicles.

Yeah I've had this numerous times. I've even had the one where your in a different instance, and you can see all the loot - But couldn't see zombies/players/animals/vehicles or even barbed wire etc.

I know most servers currently have this implemented; giving you a 2-5 minute warning of when a server is going to be restarted. But some, and most servers out there do not have one pre installed. Mainly it would be used for saving vehicles/tents just in case, yesterday I lost a car full of gear because of a server restart, usually it goes back to the last place you saved it...but in my case it didn't. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has had a problem with this. Thoughts? ~Asphyxia

I beg to differ. It makes no sense for players to communicate with each other from across the map. That being said, the fact that no means of communication has been implemented to fill the void created by the removal of global chat is lamentable. Here are some methods players could use to communicate with each other in-game: 1. Walkie-talkies This has already been suggested a number of times, so I won't go into much detail, but suffice it to say that the range should be limited and there should be different frequencies from which to choose. Walkie-talkies would need batteries to work. 2. Radio transmitters Transmitters would be found in radio stations, military camps, police stations, etc. The signals could be picked up by portable radio receivers, vehicles equipped with radios and communications equipment in buildings such as those mentioned above. Transmitters would need a working generator to function. 3. Letters Players could write letters and give them to someone willing to act as a courier. Of course, this would require players to have a permanent user name and/or address within the game, but some day it may become possible to use vacant houses as homes. 4. Telephones If players were able to restore phone service within the game, we would have another important form of communication, if you can find working generators to keep the cell phone towers and landline services running. 5. Pole-mounted speakers These could be found scattered around cities and towns, some in need of repair, with players able to broadcast live or pre-recorded messages to anyone within earshot. 6. Megaphones This would give you the ability to call out to other players over large distances and reduce the risk of giving away your exact position. 7. Yelling Similar to megaphones, but less effective, this would make your voice carry over greater distances and make it harder for players to pinpoint your location. 8. Car-mounted megaphones Players could drive around Chernarus broadcasting live or pre-recorded messages to players who have no means to receive communications. 9. News board Here would go news and statistics (as reported by players), such as reports of murders, deaths, raids and other important developments. 10. Bulletin board For everything else, there would be the bulletin board. Wanted notices, requests for help, missed connections, announcements, etc.

Also, no tents or vehicles will spawn if you force start the mission.

So I stopped my server for 5 minutes today to tweak some settings and when I restarted it all my clans saved tents and vehicles had despawned. I thought that saved items persisted after server restarts... Any light you guys can shine on this would be greatly appreciated.

since march battleeye has the script detection feature which is fully customizable http://forums.bistud...-server-admins. i was searching for a scripts.txt for dayz servers and it took some time to find one after nearly every google search found was about scripts to cheat in dayz. so as i was looking in the scripts.txt there were some good things in it but as i can say from my playtime, i made encounters with cheaters who gave them weapons and stuff which are not part of dayz. so i extended this scripts.txt with EVERY weapon/ammunition and vehicles (land,air,sea). maybe a bit overkill but who knows... you just have to put it into in your BE working directory (in the game's application data / profiles / BEpath folder, not the install folder - where bans.txt is placed as well). *EDIT* everything you need is here: http://code.google.com/p/dayz-community-banlist/source/browse/#git%2Ffilters http://dayzmod.com/f...cheat-features/ you can also find those files as a hoster of a server where you get your other stuff from the dayz staff

Then you hacked the weapon in. Battleeye will not ban a player for picking up a hacked weapon, period. It WILL ban you if it detects you spawning IN hacked weapons / vehicles... so you didn't get banned for picking up a hacked weapon.

my idea: new starting tool (radio-receiver) which will give you the ability to listen to the global channel (text only, cause voice mostly used for annoying someone :/ ) new tool as often findable as a map - the radio-transmitter - for the ability to write into the global channel in that way pple, who finds the global chat annoyingly, can deactivate it by simply dropping the starttool and the ones who wanna get some survivor (to kill them or to join into their own grp) can contact them simply. communication over long range was ever a shoutlike communication which everyone can receive, the channelbased communication should then be availiable without any protection, cause that would goin too straight into military use... the direct communication should then be changed to different say modes (as said by someone) whisper, say and shout *push* Why i think its useful? Im lonely! :/ no, seriously, we are 4 guys at the moment who sneak around and we act thery aggresive, and dont let someone get to us near than 400 metres (exept someone with vehicles if they really insist :D ) that makes direct communication unavailiable for us to get new ones in our lines :/ surviving is no problem, hold bandits away from us either, but thats a lonely way to go.... without any changes in communication ways

Firstly i will start of by saying, SixTheDK, stop getting high and mighty, you're details were passed on to the dayz team for the simple fact, you were egging him on, you talk about the fact you were interested in what he could do and thats why you did it which makes you guilty, the fact you didn't benefit from it because he shot you means nothing. If he hadn't shot you, would you have naded yourself to make it fair on the other legit players? On top of that what about the damage you did in the server, firing the guns on the vehicles, the players who may have been hit and died as a result or the buildings that collapse with people inside who may have lost gear that they've spent hours working on? You call others a child yet you are whining about being caught. You are the one in the wrong so stop trying to portray it as you are the victim. You are 20 years old, act like it, take some responsibility Secondly, HoboNinja i'll pm you with the guid's of all 4 parties involved, i will also detail which one was the hacker and you can ban which ever one of them you like. Hacking and collaborating is not fair on other players, play the game as it was intended and don't be a lamer and chernarus will be a better place

More vehicles in general plz. The only reason anyone should be stashing vehicles in a post-apocalyptic world is to protect the gear inside. Vehicles should be more abundant imo.

I agree and they need to fix the off map hoarding too. I've been playing for a couple months and I've only ever found 2 bicycles and one bus whilst never seeing anyone else drive any vehicles on my home server :/

Okay you want the absolute and full story of what happened? There was a person with Rhul in his name he was the spawner of the stuff. The reason why I know is because sadly I was involved only because he convinced us he was an admin and could spawn these vehicles, though upon reading up on it today I confirmed my suspicions he was indeed a hacker. Wally is a very good friend of mine he thought just as much as myself this was a legit operation ran by admins. About him killing in debug forest I know nothing about. The mission was to pick up "survivors and bring them to base" we, my cousin and I figured out later on that every time we brought a survivor back the to base Rhul and another guy would wait until we left. Then massacre them all for their stuff. We immediately left this "military faction they had created". As we officially found out they were corrupt, Rhul the leader would shoot someone with his ak47 and they would become a team member in an army outfit equipped with an ak47 3 mags of ammo and full survival tools such as compass, map and watch. So I am really sorry to say I took part of these non-legitimate actions and as soon as I saw this thread I knew I must fill you in with the whole thing. I believe Rhul was the only one with the ability to spawn anything, all of us were just lied to about being led by "admins" to rescue survivors and keep them alive.

Happened to us a few times stopped our vehicles to fill up, a bus UAZ and a red car then the server reset and poof they were all gone. Have to wait for a hard reset or something then they appear.

Could someone please explain the mechanics behind storing gear in a vehicle? A friend and I had a lot of gear saved in a vehicle. It saved the gear all night, with intervals of up to 2 hours of us not touching the vehicle. 20 hours later when we log on the next day, vehicle is there but no gear. Anyone have feedback or answers? much appreciated.

Safest way to switch weapon atm is to click "open backpack" then doubleclick the weapon you want to switch to. Also , it's a known issue that some weapons cause trambling and get overwritten. I'm thinking this is a BIS bug but need more testing. As for the island. It's "inside the map" and safe. However there's a very small island waaay out into the ocean that is not safe as 1. your character wont spawn in there (but be placed in debug zone), 2. vehicles dont seem to spawn there after server reboot.